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COLLEGE OF FOOD, AGRICULTURAL, AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

May 2018

From Pigs to People: Identifying a Threat

Research at the Food Animal Health Research Program (FAHRP) in collaboration with Utrecht University in the Netherlands identified a pig virus with the potential to spread to people.

Detecting Food Fraud

The FDA ruled that the food industry must get rid of partially hydrogenated oils from human foods back in 2015 and gave the industry three years to do so. Now that the deadline is drawing near, how will anyone be able to tell what foods still contain the outlawed substance?

Ohio Does It Again!

Once again, Ohio claimed the win for the national 4-H Raise Your Hand campaign. We'd like to provide a huge thank you to all of the alumni, volunteers and friends who got Ohio to the top spot. After trailing Nebraska by 83 votes in the week before the campaign closed, Ohio hands shot up and surged us to the top with 17,778 votes.